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FOLK SHOW 10 FEBRUARY 2026

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58 minutes | Tuesday, 10 February 2026
JB with the best in folk and roots from the Chieftains to Scran via Jen Butterworth and Andy Irvine!
57 minutes | Tuesday, 3 February 2026
JB has some barn dances, Dylan at the Institute and a bit of the Boss!
58 minutes | Tuesday, 27 January 2026
JB has the Furrow Collective, Leverette, some hens teeth, some raggle-taggle gypsies and Bryan Ferry singing a sea shanty!
57 minutes | Tuesday, 20 January 2026
JB has some Blue grass, Winter winds, a nod to Burns and then heads down to the Sally Gardens!
57 minutes | Tuesday, 13 January 2026
JB launches into the new year proper with music from the likes of Siobhan Miller, Tim Edey, Martin and Eliza McCarthy and Planxty - and he looks forward to plenty of great music here on the Isle of Man
56 minutes | Tuesday, 6 January 2026
JB's been a bit snowed up so celebrates this week's icy weather with some classics - more music, less chat!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 30 December 2025
JB plays some of your - and his - favourite folk, roots and Manx music from 2025
57 minutes | Tuesday, 23 December 2025
JB with some wonderfully festive folk and a yuletide miracle - a cheerily festive Bob Dylan!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 16 December 2025
JB plays some great guitar from Mark Lawrence's new album Jupiter and gets jazzy-folk with a track from trumpeter Laura Jurd's latest album!
57 minutes | Tuesday, 9 December 2025
JB invites you all to sing along as he starts this weeks Folk Show with music from Landless, Bonny Light Horseman and our own Davy Knowles
56 minutes | Tuesday, 2 December 2025
JB has some Sandy Denny, Ruth Keggin-Gell with Rachel Hair and The Imagined Village among other joys in this week's selection!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 25 November 2025
John is back with his usual mix of folk and roots music.
57 minutes | Tuesday, 18 November 2025
JB takes the Outside Track . .enjoys some Sonny Boy Williamson and Tony Christie as you may never have heard him before . . !
56 minutes | Tuesday, 11 November 2025
JB plays the best in folk and roots - with plenty of great new music from NXNW, The Kasambwe Brothers and Trip - but space for some John Martyn and a Wagonwheel!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 4 November 2025
JB has a travelling man, some Bellowhead and Erin Harp Country Blues Duo amongst many other joys!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 28 October 2025
JB features the likes of Derry Farrell, Trip and Dylan in the basement in his selection of folk and roots from around the world
56 minutes | Tuesday, 21 October 2025
JB gives you the best in folk from the IOM and around the globe including the likes of Edwina Hayes, Tarren and Robert Plant and Saving Grace
57 minutes | Tuesday, 14 October 2025
JB starts Banjovial and finishes with Nitetracks as he plays the best in folk and roots from the Isle of Man and around the world . . !
56 minutes | Tuesday, 7 October 2025
JB hosts A.D.A.M . .Siger, Brighde Chaimbeul and some Peter Gabriel on the banjo!
57 minutes | Tuesday, 30 September 2025
JB pays tribute to that chameleon of the bass, the great Danny Thompson who died recently plus music from the likes of Jack McLean, Flook and Elephant Sessions
57 minutes | Tuesday, 23 September 2025
JB with the best in folk from the Bothy Band to Dan Walsh via the Cartographers!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Several Hares on a Mountain, Peggy Seeger, McTullagh Vannin and John Smith all in the mix introduced by John Barker
56 minutes | Tuesday, 9 September 2025
JB is back with his unique selection of all that's best in Folk and Roots from the IOM and around the globe
56 minutes | Tuesday, 2 September 2025
It may start with Led Zeppelin - but fear not it is the Folk Show with JB!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 26 August 2025
JB with his best selection of folk and roots music from the Island and around the globe including The Hunch, Odette Mitchell Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe with Daniel Quayle and five drunken landladies!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 19 August 2025
JB looks forward to this year's Shrewsbury Folk Festival with music from the likes of the Levellers, Dougie McLean and some bullocks
56 minutes | Tuesday, 12 August 2025
John is back with this weekly selectin of folk and roots music from the Isle of Man and around the world.
56 minutes | Tuesday, 5 August 2025
More great folk and roots sounds from JB as he gears up for another busy folk festival season!
56 minutes | Tuesday, 29 July 2025
JB with the best in folk and roots from the likes of Tamsin Elliott and Tarek Elazhary, Callum Stewart, Lankum and some sounds from Yn Chrunniaght
56 minutes | Tuesday, 22 July 2025
John brings you the very best in folk and roots music, including tracks from a number of artists performing at this year's Yn Chruinnaght.
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FOLK SHOW 10 FEBRUARY 2026
The Folk Show

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